Heart of palms : my Peace Corps years in Tranquilla /

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Heart of Palms is a clear-eyed memoir of Peace Corps service in the rural Panamanian village of Tranquilla through the eyes of a young American woman trained as a community forester. In the storied fifty-year history of the US Peace Corps, Heart of Palms is the first Peace Corps memoir set in Panama...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cornett, Meredith W., 1968-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Cornett, Meredith W., > 1968-
Peace Corps (U.S.) > Biography.
Peace Corps (U.S.)
1900-1999
Rain forest ecology > Panama > History > 20th century.
Rain forest ecology > Panama > San Vicente de la Tranquilla > History > 20th century.
Women ecologists > Panama > Biography.
Americans > Panama > Biography.
Écologie des forêts pluviales > Panamá > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Femmes écologistes > Panamá > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Science & Technology.
NATURE > Ecology.
NATURE > Ecosystems & Habitats > Wilderness.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Ecology.
Americans
Ecology
Manners and customs
Rain forest ecology
Women ecologists
Panama > Environmental conditions.
San Vicente de la Tranquilla (Panama) > Environmental conditions.
San Vicente de la Tranquilla (Panama) > Social life and customs.
San Vicente de la Tranquilla (Panama) > Biography.
Panama
collective biographies.
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
History
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Plant species mentioned in the text
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Seed (germination): July-December 1991
  • Armando
  • Platano
  • Papaya
  • Teca
  • Exploracion
  • Agua
  • Posadas
  • Part II. Seedling (taking root): January-June 1992
  • Brujeria
  • Limon
  • Todo el mundo
  • Acacia
  • Hormigas
  • Palmas
  • Part III. Sapling (establishment): July-December 1992
  • Recursos naturales
  • Donde el gringo
  • La operacion
  • Victor Venenoso
  • Salud
  • Leucaena
  • Boa
  • Part IV. Tree (harvest): January-June 1993
  • Demonstracion
  • Almejas
  • Quinceanera
  • Lorena
  • Miel
  • Bosque
  • Despedida
  • Epilogue.

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